History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.